Trace-carrier



H. TAY.

TRACE CARRIER.

(No Model.)

Patented May 20,, 1884,.

ATTORN EYS WITNESSES N. PETERS. Phnm-Lilhogmphar. Washinglnm D. C.

Parent rrrcm II-ANS TAY, OF AROOLA, ILLINOIS.

TRACE-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,035, dated May 20,1884.

Application filed March 10, 1884.

1'0 aZZ whom it 11mg concern:

Be it known that I, HANS TAY, a citizen of the United States, resident at Arcola, in the county of Douglas and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improve verse section.

This invention has relation to improvements in harness; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of devices, as hereinafter set forth, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A represents a metallic guard consisting of the depressed end bars, a, and the raised side bars, b, said side bars having each a loop portion, 0, at one end, and at the other end a bridge portion, d. The side bars are connected at the bridge portion by a cross-brace, 0. Each loop portion 0 is formed with a spur, 9,6X- tending upward from the lower bar thereof. The ends (6 of theguard are attached to the back -strap B and to the crupper-strap 0, said straps being also fastened to a pad, D, of leather, which is designed to rest on the top of the loins of the horse. The guard or buckle piece A is in this manner also connected to the leather pad. To the pad are secured, by rivet or other common fastening-one on each side-the hooks E, each hook turned upward and inward, so that its terminal portion is under the bridge (1 of the guard on the same side, as shown. The base portion of each hook is made broad, as shown at h, so that the hook will hold its position under pressure, not turning from side to side. The pliability of the leather pad, however, allows the hook to be pressed downward a little away from the arch (Z when necessary. The under portion of the base of the hook is provided with small (N0 model.)

spurs k, which, when said base is secured to the leather pad, enter apertures therein, and aid in preserving the rigid position of the hook. In its normal position, the terminal portion or beak of the hook is just under the arch of the guard; but when pressed down, sufficient interval is made to allow the passage of the cockeye of the trace, which is designed to be attached to the hook when the harness is not in use. It is intended to bear down with the'cockeye on the hook, and the leather pad, actingas a spring, allows the cockeye to pass under the arch and becomes engaged with the hook, which, being raised afterward by the leather pad, holds the cockeye securely, so that it is not liable to become disengaged when the harness is shaken or roughly handled. In forming the spur g on the lower bar of the loop 0, it is designed to make the height of the spur about equal to the thickness of the hip-strap, and the distance between the point of the spur and the upper bar of the loop is also equal to the thickness of the hipstrap. Near the end of the hip-strap is made therein a small aperture, 70, designed to engage the projection 5 when the end of said strap is passed through the loop outward. The body of the strap being turned back, is pulled outward through the loop, over the portion which engages the spur, and serves to hold this portion in secure engagement with the spur. In this operation, a small. band of the strap is left inside the guard, as indicated at Z. This method of securing the hipstrap is designed to save time and labor, as well as some leather, when compared with the ordinary mode of fastening the hip strap by stitching.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. The metallic guard or buckle piece consisting of the depressed end bars, a, the raised side bars, I), having the loop portions 0, formed with spurs g, the arched portions (1, and the cross-brace e, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the metallic guard having the raised side bars and the depressed end bars connected to the back-strap and erupper-strap, of the leather pad under said guard,

and the upwardly and inwardly turned hooks ing partially beneath the side bars, I), of the IO secured to the leather pad and having their guard, substantially as and for the purposes terminal portions under the side bars, snbspecified.

stantially as specified. In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature in 3. In a trace-carrier, the combination, with presence of two witnesses.

the metallic guard, constructed as described, HANS TAY.

of the hooks E, having broad bases h, pro- Witnesses:

vided on their under sides with the spurs 70 A. B. STULL,

to engage the pad D, the said hooks extend- FRANK DIEHL. 

